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Quotes About Use

But the people who had to use the software were never actually consulted in the purchase cycle, so why bother to make the software any good for those people?
~ Cory Doctorow
In other words, the unique value of the 'authentic' work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Build something of value and deliver a service compelling enough that people would just use it.
~ Walter Isaacson
Time, yes … We waste it or save it or use it—one would almost think we mastered it instead of the other way around. Yet are all novels really a waste of the precious dimension? Perhaps you underestimate the value of invention.
~ Ward Moore
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
~ Charles Spurgeon
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sun-shiny.
~ Charles Stuart Calverley
The cottage garden most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
~ Charlotte Smith
For just this moment, we have the closest thing to an advantage we're likely to get. And if we don't use it, we're gonna lose it." Look at me busting out all the tired old metaphors. Like I'd been saving them all winter just waiting for an opportunity to trot them out.
~ Cherie Priest
Did you even use anything at all in that bag of yours?" "No, but I might use some of it later." And I almost certainly would, once I got rid of this crybaby and picked up my drag queen.
~ Cherie Priest
The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you.
~ Terri Guillemets
In the end, only something endowed with mystery is worthy of love. It is impossible to love something stripped of mystery; at best it would be a thing one uses as one sees fit.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Arte es algo cuyo «uso», en vez de ser un verdadero utilizar, se cumple de modo peculiar en un demorarse contemplativo en la apariencia.
~ Hans-Georg Gadamer
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
~ Lawrence Clark Powell
We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.
~ lenin vladimir v
and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.
~ Jane Austen
I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice , said she. — In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice. I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
~ Jane Austen
What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.
~ Janet Fitch
Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.
~ Janet Fitch
Madrid's anarchy can make planning difficult: they're unpredictable. But if you can be defensively sound and use the ball well, making the most of the space they leave, you can do them damage.
~ Quique Setien
Federal election laws bar candidates from the 'personal use' of campaign donations - a ban meant to stop candidates from buying things unrelated to their runs for office. If a purchase is a result of campaign activity, the government allows it.
~ David Fahrenthold
Nothing has really made me upset aside from the baseless, false accusations of PED use.
~ Michael Chandler
We have our Upside Down document which describes its rules and its mythology in quite a bit of detail, but I think we're just going to slowly parse that out, and maybe not even fully use all of it.
~ Ross Duffer
I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors.
~ John Piper